Happy Defenestration Day

[TUSooner]

In honor of Professor Homey....


Sound the trumpets!
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This is a GREAT DAY IN HISTORY


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It's...



May 23, the 388th Anniversary of the Defenestration of Prague, 1618.

“Defenestration” comes from the versatile Latin prefix “de” meaning, among other things, “out of” or “from,” and “fenestra” meaning window.

In Bohemia, the Protestant nobility was angry at the Catholic emperor Ferdinand (1578-1637) for allowing Catholic authorities to ignore promises of religious freedom. Elected Protestant "Protectors” led by

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Heinrich Matthias, the flaming, violent, and radical Duke of Thurn (1567-1640),


crashed a meeting at
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Hradcany Castle in Prague

and tossed two imperial governors,

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Wilhelm Graf Slavata (1572-1652)
and

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Jaroslav Borzita Graf Von Martinicz (1582-1649),

and maybe a secretary named Philip Fabricius (picture not available), out a castle window in the traditional Bohemian manner.

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Defenestration often involved a frenzied mob waiting below the window to skewer the defenestrated persons on long pikes and to hack them into tiny bits with swords and axes. But these three defenestratees landed unmolested and unhurt on
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a great heap of rotting horse manure and straw.

Catholic spinmeisters said the Virgin Mary lowered Martinicz to the ground "despite his corpulent body." More skeptical Protestant eyewitnesses credited the horse poop.

Despite the lack of serious harm and the trace of comedy, the Emperor sought revenge, and one thing led to another which led to the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), which produced a lot of serious harm and not much comedy.

Celebrate this Momentous Day by defenestrating something.
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[Mjcpr]

I thought this might've been something The Decider came up with.

[Tear Down This Wall]

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[TUSooner]

Tsk tsk.
Pearls before swine.
<shakes head sadly>

;)

[OUinFLA]

It's just not the same as if Homey did it, but valiant effort non the less.

j/k TU.
Interesting.

[TUSooner]

It's just not the same as if Homey did it, but valiant effort non the less.

j/k TU.
Interesting.
But I DO write my own material !

:D

[TUSooner]

I don't care how dumb this thread is, Defenestration Day is not over until I say it's over !

Or until the mods kill it. :)

[TUSooner]

Well, crap.
I thought it was interesting. Don't the SO's Czech posters even give a dang?
I give up.
<sniff sniff>

[SoonerAtKU]

I thought this was going to be about the band. Turns out it's something real. Learn something new every day.

[TUSooner]

I thought this was going to be about the band. Turns out it's something real. Learn something new every day.
There's a band called Defenestration? Are they Czech?
:twinkies:

[KC//CRIMSON]

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[TUSooner]

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Far.

Out.

:eek:

[SoonerAtKU]

Formed in my hometown of Bartlesville, popular in Norman. Tyson Meade of the Chainsaw Kittens et al.